Sport: It Makes No Difference

When 25 of the nation's top-notch contract bridge teams sat down in
Manhattan's Shelton Hotel last week to fight for the most prized
team-of-four trophy in their sport, the Vanderbilt Cup, favorites to
win were the famed Four Aces and a team led by Yachtsman Harold
Stirling Vanderbilt, the cup donor. The Four Aces had won this annual
event four times; Vanderbilt's team had won once, been runner-up to the
Aces twice. Ace Oswald Jacoby was so confident that in the first round
he bet $100 to $10 against his opponents, a team that had barely
qualified, was soundly beaten for...